From lojbab@lojban.org Fri Feb 18 10:21:16 2000
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Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 13:21:16 -0500
From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)"
Subject: RE: Dr. James Cooke Brown
At 02:29 PM 02/18/2000 +0000, And Rosta wrote:
>From: "And Rosta"
>
>Rex May:
> > Or, maybe better yet, since total relexification seems to
> > be in the cards, redo the vocabulary a la my suggestion
> > of many years ago. To summarize:
>
>Not to say that your suggestions mightn't be improvements, but please
>let me make clear that my suggestion, now with a suggested implementation
>from John Cowan, does NOT put relexification on the cards.
Indeed, it seems that Rex has forgotten that JCB specifically answered his
proposal for relexification with morphology changes in Lognet several years
ago. Basically JCB said that it would be fine for Rex to go ahead and make
a language of that sort and go his separate way, but that it would *not* be
Loglan.
This was NOT the same attitude that he took towards Lojban - we had
explicitly kept the original morphology with just enough changes to
rationalize it and avoid possible copyright violation claims. While JCB
never accepted our calling it "Loglan", he also did not act as though he
liked the idea of us going our separate ways.
We also have done a good enough job at staying true to JCB's design
requirements that people have talked of reunifying the two languages and
communities. While the former may not be possible, our essential unity is
clear to many, unlike for example that of Esperanto and Ido (which actually
look more alike in print than Lojban and TLI Loglan).
lojbab
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